Cheers is a monthly listing of honors and
awards received by faculty, staff and students plus recent
appointments and promotions. Contributions must be
submitted in writing and be accompanied by a phone
number.

Bloomberg School of Public Health

David Celentano, professor and deputy chair of
Epidemiology, received an honorary doctor of philosophy in health
sciences from Chiang Mai University in northern Thailand. Her
Royal Highness Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn presented the
degree at commencement activities on Jan. 25.

Johns Hopkins Bayview

Bruce S. Bocher, professor of medicine, director of
the Division of Allergy and Clinical Immunology and Cosner
Scholar in translational research, has been elected to the board
of directors of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and
Immunology.

Johns Hopkins Health System

The Rev. Uwe C. Scharf has been named director of the
Pastoral Care Department at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. For the
past five years, he was associate director of the Pastoral
Services Department at Duke.

Lillie Shockney, administrative director of the Johns
Hopkins Avon Foundation Breast Center, has received the Susan G.
Komen Breast Cancer Foundation's Professor of Survivorship Award.
The award honors and supports research and education that focuses
on survivorship and quality-of-life issues for breast cancer
survivors. The award includes a gift of $20,000 for the recipient
to use in advancing breast cancer survivorship.

JHHS and its president, Ronald R. Peterson, have
received the Greater Baltimore Committee's Bridging the Gap Award
for the system's efforts to strengthen minority businesses in the
area.

Krieger School of Arts and Sciences

David Rosenstein, a doctoral student in Near Eastern
Studies, has been honored by the American School of Oriental
Research with one of its most coveted recognitions, the Charles
U. Harris Award. The award, presented recently in ceremonies held
in Philadelphia, is given annually to the person who has
demonstrated unflagging support for the long-range goals of ASOR,
an organization of 110 universities, seminaries, museums,
foundations and libraries. Its objectives are to initiate,
encourage and support research into the cultures of the Near East
from the earliest times, and through its many publications and
outreach programs to help the public understand these
findings.

Macie Hall, senior information technology specialist,
Humanities, will assume the presidency of the Visual Resources
Association at its 24th annual conference, to be held March 6 to
10 in Baltimore. Ann Woodward, curator of the History of
Art Resources Collection, will become treasurer of the
organization, which is dedicated to furthering research and
education in the field of image management within the
educational, cultural heritage and commercial environments.

Nitze School of Advanced International
Studies

Margel Lindzey Highet is the new director of
development. The SAIS alumna returns to the school with 20 years
of fundraising experience in the nonprofit sector. She previously
served as vice president of development for Oceana, an
international ocean conservation group, and Common Cause, a
nonpartisan citizens' group advocating accountable government.

Christopher Massi is the new associate director of
development. Massi has almost 20 years' experience in education
and fundraising. He has headed an independent school in Seattle
and was senior director of development and finance for a policy
and planning organization in Pennsylvania.

SAIS has been honored with three gold and one bronze
Admissions Advertising Awards. Sponsored by Admissions Marketing
Report, the program is the largest educational advertising awards
competition in the country. More than 3,500 entries were
submitted this year from every state in the country and multiple
foreign countries. Gold went to SAISPHERE 2004 (titled "Why
Regions Matter") for Best Internal Publication for a Graduate
School; the 2005-2006 SAIS Catalog for Best Catalog for a
Graduate School; and Discover SAIS for Best Video Viewbook for a
Graduate School. The 2005 SAIS Summer Programs marketing
materials were recognized with a bronze for Best Direct Mail
Campaign for a Graduate School. Julie Hitt, director of Summer
and Executive Education, and Courtney Burton, assistant director
of admissions, oversaw the Summer Programs marketing materials
and SAIS video project, respectively.

School of Medicine

Michael Barone, assistant professor in Pediatrics,
his wife, Deirdre; and their daughters, Bridget, Meredith and
Emily, were named the 2005-2006 Maryland PTA Family of the Year
at the Awards Dinner of the Maryland State Parent Teacher
Association. The award honors the family's seven years of
dedicated, selfless service to the Rodgers Forge Elementary
School community.

Eric B. Bass, associate professor of medicine and
senior faculty research fellow in the Urban Health Institute, is
editor in chief of a new peer-reviewed journal, Progress in
Community Health Partnerships: Research, Education and Action,
published by the Johns Hopkins Press.

Richard E. Chaisson, professor of medicine and
infectious diseases, will receive the American Thoracic Society's
World Lung Health Award for 2006.

Edward Cornwell, professor in the Department of
Surgery and chief of Adult Trauma for JHH, was honored by the
Maryland House of Delegates with the Speaker's Medallion. The
speaker of the House awards the medallion annually to an
individual chosen for his or her exemplary service to the House
and the state of Maryland.

Andrea Cox, assistant professor of medicine, has
received a three-year $300,000 grant from the Dana Foundation for
her project "Mechanisms of Immunologic Unresponsiveness to
Hepatitis C Virus Infection."

Jed Fahey, faculty research associate in Pharmacology
and Molecular Sciences and director of the Brassica
Chemoprotection Laboratory, has been named editor in chief of
Trees for Life, a new online scientific journal focused on
traditional knowledge and scientific studies of beneficial
plants. Its URL is www.tfljournal.org.

William Guggino, professor of physiology and
pediatrics, will receive the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation's 2006
Doris F. Tulcin Cystic Fibrosis Research Award, recognizing him
as the country's top cystic fibrosis scientist. Guggino is
director of the Cystic Fibrosis Research Development Program,
head of the Cystic Fibrosis Gene Therapy Program, vice chairman
of residency in Pediatrics and director of curriculum for
first-year medical students.

Ralph H. Hruban, professor and director of the
Division of Gastrointestinal/Liver Pathology, has been named the
first science director of the Lustgarten Foundation for
Pancreatic Research. Hruban, who will remain at Hopkins, will
help advance the Long Island-based foundation's research.

Landon King, associate professor of medicine and
biological chemistry, has been appointed head of the Division of
Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine.

David Rini, associate professor of art as applied to
medicine, has been named a Fulbright Scholar for 2006. Rini will
spend seven months in Santiago, Chile, to establish South
America's first academic program in medical and scientific
illustration, at the Universidad de Andres Bello.

Matthias Stuber, associate professor in Radiology,
was awarded first place in the Society for Cardiovascular
Magnetic Resonance's competition for Best Basic Abstract
competition. The winning abstract, "Signal-Enhanced Visualization
of Magnetic Nanoparticle-Labeled Stem Cells Using Inversion
Recovery ON-Resonant Water Suppression," summarized the research
team's new method for viewing stem cells via magnetic resonance
imaging. Stuber's team included Wesley Gilson, Jeff Bulte and
Dara Kraitchman, all of Radiology and Radiological Sciences.

Nitish Thakor, professor in Biomedical Engineering,
was appointed editor in chief of IEEE Transactions on Neural and
Rehabilitation Engineering for a three- to six-year term. He has
served on the journal's editorial board for more than 10
years.

Gary Wand, professor of medicine and psychiatry and
director of the Endocrine Training Program, has been admitted to
the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology.

School of Nursing

Barbara Biedrzycki, a doctoral candidate, received a
$30,000 research scholarship from the American Cancer Society to
explore why cancer patients participate in research trials and
clinical trials.

Linda Rose, associate professor, has been named
director of the Baccalaureate Program. She succeeds Linda Pugh,
the first director of the program, who is stepping down from the
position.

Dan Sheridan, assistant professor, received a $34,525
grant from the Governor's Office of Crime Control & Prevention to
coordinate training of nurses to conduct pediatric forensic
sexual assault exams. One training will be hosted at the School
of Nursing; the other site will be in rural Maryland.

Recently elected to the board of officers for the Maryland
Association of Nursing Students were Rachel Walker,
president; Adrienne Clark, secretary; Nicole
Mitchell, membership/nominations; and Nancy Poznak,
newsletter editor.

School of Professional Studies in Business and
Education

Christopher T. Helmrath, director of the MBA Capstone
program in the Graduate Division of Business and Management, has
joined SC&H Group, a financial services firm, as a partner. He
brings to his new position more than 20 years of experience in
the corporate financial advisory field.

Pete Petersen, interim dean and professor of
management in the Graduate Division of Business and Management,
has received a Johns Hopkins University Heritage Award,
recognizing outstanding service to the institution. Petersen, who
joined Hopkins in 1979, served as the division's first director.
He is a 24-year member of the Academy of Management and is an
award-winning author for his works on management history. His
book The Great Baltimore Fire, issued for that event's centenary
in 2004, is the Maryland Historical Society's best-selling title.
Petersen was also recognized recently by Delta Sigma Pi as a
Career Honoree for his longtime support of the Chi and Baltimore
Alumni chapters.

Michael Rosenberg, professor of special education in
the Graduate Division of Business and Management, has published a
new edition of his text for special educators, Student Teacher to
Master Teacher. The book, the first edition of which was
published in 1998, serves as a practical guide for educating
students with special needs. Co-authors are Lawrence and Dorothy
O'Shea.

David Winstead, member of the Graduate Division of
Business and Management's Edward St. John Department of Real
Estate advisory board, has been appointed commissioner of the
General Services Administration's Public Buildings Service. In
his new position, Winstead will oversee real estate dealings for
the federal government, responsible for a national portfolio of
340 million square feet for more than 100 government agencies.

Greg Conderacci, Don McDaniel and Chris
Helmrath, practitioner faculty members in the Graduate
Division of Business and Management, were named to Baltimore
Smart CEO magazine's "CEO Choice: Top Advisors" list in the
magazine's February edition. Winners were selected from
nominations offered by the publication's nearly 19,000
subscribers, who are CEOs of companies of all sizes throughout
the Baltimore metropolitan area.

Bahareh Ardeshiri, John Lederer, Andrei Ponomarev, David
Schwartz and Katie Troutman, students in the Graduate
Division of Business and Management's Edward St. John Real Estate
Department, each received $1,000 from the Paul Cordish
Scholarship Fund to help fund their participation in the European
Real Estate Challenge held in January in Berlin, Germany. Hopkins
was the only U.S. university invited to participate in this
annual competition, which included students from eight European
countries. The teams, assembled by competition organizers, were
made up of five students, each from a different country, who
tackled various real estate responsibilities, including broker
and consultant, in delivering a mock presentation to a board of
directors for a proposed corporate relocation. Hopkins students
were on two of the three final teams, earning silver and bronze
awards.

Whiting School of Engineering

Andreas Andreou, professor in Electrical and Computer
Engineering, and Gregory Hager, professor in Computer
Science, have been elected fellows of the Institute of Electrical
and Electronics Engineers. This highest level of membership is
conferred only by invitation of the board of directors upon a
person of outstanding and extraordinary qualifications and
experience in IEEE-designated fields, and who has made important
individual contributions to one or more of these fields. Andreou
was recognized for his significant contributions to energy
efficient sensory microsystems and Hager for his significant
contributions to vision-based robotics.

Jim Fill, professor in Applied Mathematics and
Statistics, was named editor in chief of the Journal of
Theoretical Probability for a three-year term. A member of the
editorial board since 2000, Fill served the last two years as
co-editor in chief.

Jacob Khurgin, professor in Electrical and Computer
Engineering, has been elected a fellow of the Optical Society of
America. A fellow is a member who has served with distinction in
the advancement of optics and who has been nominated by a current
fellow. Khurgin was recognized for "outstanding original
contributions to the physics of nonlinear optical and
electro-optical semiconductors, especially the low-dimensional
semiconductor structures."

Abby Lattes has been named director of marketing and
communications. Since 2004 she had been manager of communications
and marketing for the university's historic houses. Prior to
that, she was a marketing and public relations consultant for the
Jewish Museum of Maryland, the Maryland Humanities Council, the
Mount Vernon Cultural District and other clients. From 1999
through 2002, she served as director of public relations and
marketing for the Maryland Historical Society.

Charles Meneveau, professor in Mechanical
Engineering, has been elected a corresponding member of the
Chilean Academy of Sciences. The academy's primary mission is to
sponsor, support and stimulate pure and applied scientific
research.

Ed Scheinerman, professor in Applied Mathematics and
Statistics, was named editor of the "Notes" section of American
Mathematical Monthly. The Monthly, a publication of the
Mathematical Association of America, has more than 45,000 readers
and is the world's most widely read mathematical publication.
"Notes" includes short articles that contain a mathematical gem
or an elegant proof of a theorem. Competition by authors for
these pages is fierce; hundreds of submissions vie for a handful
of acceptances. Scheinerman has been a member of the
publication's editorial board for a decade.

Adam Stubblefield, assistant research professor in
Computer Science and JHUISI, has been named one of the top
technology innovators under age 35 by MIT Technology Review. The
journal recognized Stubblefield's work in finding holes in
supposedly secure systems and noted that he is helping keep
information systems from being used to encroach on civil
liberties. Stubblefield received his doctorate from Hopkins in
2005.

James West, research professor in Electrical and
Computer Engineering, received the Gold Medal from the Acoustical
Society of America. The prestigious award is presented annually
to an individual whose contributions to the field of acoustics
and to the Acoustical Society have been unusually distinguished
and recognizes excellence in acoustics over a lifetime. The award
will be presented at the Acoustical Society of America meeting in
June.

John Wierman, professor in Applied Mathematics and
Statistics, has been elected president of the Southern Regional
Council on Statistics for a two-year term. SRCOS is a consortium
of more than 40 universities that promotes statistical research
and education in the southern United States. The mission of SRCOS
is to promote the improvement of postsecondary education in
statistical science, assist in the development of high-quality
statistics instruction in elementary and high schools, and
promulgate educational activities that improve the quality of
statistical practices.